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A retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.
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A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.
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Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
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4 stars
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A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are left in the woods but find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
5. John Henry
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Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.
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3 stars
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
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The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse finally to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry.
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A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
12. Tops & bottoms
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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
13. The treasure
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A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
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A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones.